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The Republic of Palau has hired a high-profile Texas prosecutor as a new Assistant Attorney General.
Former Texas District Attorney John Bradley who served as the state’s DA for more than decade has accepted the position with Palau’s AG’s office and will begin in mid-July disclosed the President’s office.
Bradley who is known as a tough prosecutor was a subject of two controversial murder cases in Texas a few years ago.
According to reports, healing as a Chairman of the Texas Forensic Science Commission in 2009, Bradley and the Innocence Project battled over re-examining the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, a man who was executed in 2004 for reportedly igniting an arson that killed his three daughters.
For about six years, he also fought the Innocence Project’s efforts to exonerate Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife under Bradley’s former boss. Although it was Bradley’s predecessor who hid evidence to secure Morton’s life sentence, critics believed Bradley belittled Morton’s claims of innocence and strongly fought testing of DNA evidence that had the power to set him free.
In a press statement to the media, Palau’s President’s office expressed that Bradley “readily admits that he made a serious error in judgment by not agreeing to the DNA testing, and is painfully aware that his actions kept an innocent man locked up for longer than he should have been.”
Furthermore President Remengesau believes Bradley deserves a second chance. He expressed, “Everyone makes mistakes and if we learn from those mistakes we become better people.”
